Boxing Day Hunt, UK

 

Riders during the North Cotswold Boxing Day Hunt in Broadway, Worcestershire, UK 

The yearly festive meets - numbering more than 200 throughout the UK, give the opportunity to showcase trail hunting and other lawful, albeit controversial, hunting activities.  However, protesters say it is simply a "smokescreen" for the illegal hunting of foxes.

Fox hunting was banned in England and Wales following the introduction of the Hunting Act 2004, which came into force a year later. It is also banned in Scotland via the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, but remains legal in Northern Ireland.